Ingrian and Netegrity to Deliver Secure Content Networking Platform

📅 September 20, 2001 - Ingrian Networks (ingrian.com), aleader in secure content networking, has announced astrategic partnership with Netegrity (netegrity.com),a leading provider of software solutions for securelymanaging e-business.

Under the terms of the agreement, Netegrity'sSiteMinder Web authentication and access control agentwill be tightly integrated into Ingrian Network'sSecure Content Networking platforms, delivering topsolutions for access management and end-to-end contentsecurity in one platform.
Netegrity's flagship product SiteMinder is amarket-leading software solution for securely managinguser access to e-business Web sites. By combining single sign-on,authentication management and entitlement managementfunctionality, SiteMinder provides companies with theability to centrally manage all of the accessmanagement applications on a site, reducing the costand complexity of administering these sites.
"As global businesses move more and more secureapplications and services online, it's imperative thatonly authorized individuals have access toconfidential data," said Rod Murchison, VP of productmanagement for Ingrian. "By integrating Netegrity'sauthentication and authorization software into oursecure content networking platform, we are breakingnew ground by offering enterprises and financialservices organizations an end-to-end content securityinfrastructure that supports their strategicelectronic business initiatives."
With SiteMinder integrated into Ingrian Network'sSecure Content Networking platform, network managerscan now move the authentication and authorizationprocesses off of Web servers and forward into thesecure network infrastructure, drastically increasingthe stability of Web servers already burdened bymultiple software programs. Instead of installing andmanaging SiteMinder Web agents on racks of Webservers, network managers can now simply activate andconfigure the integrated SiteMinder Web agent fromIngrian Network's management interface, potentiallysaving time and resources.
"Ingrian Networks' innovative Secure ContentNetworking platform, combined with SiteMinder's accessmanagement functionality, provides a complete, secureand scalable infrastructure to meet the needs of thefast-growing secure content delivery market," saidSumner Blount, Netegrity's senior director ofchannels. "This is an important technology partnershipbecause it provides our customers with increasedfunctionality while dramatically increasing usage ofour core offerings. We look forward to an ongoingrelationship with Ingrian Networks to deliveradditional security products and services to themarket."
One of the unique features of the platform is itsability to thoroughly secure data on Web servers anddatabases utilizing powerful key management andencryption technologies. Ingrian Networks' platformallows companies to leverage their secure critical B2Band B2C transactions in new ways, offering absolutesecurity without sacrificing the performance, speedand flexibility companies expect from their network.
Aside from Vogt, Ingrian Network's management teamincludes some the Silicon Valley's top experts insecurity and networking including Rod Murchison, VP ofProduct Management and formerly of CacheFlow as wellas other leading technologists including the inventorof Palm's secure wireless PDA and the designer ofTivo's scalable content distribution architecture.